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Jonathan Gray commented on HBASE-4536:
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We were also discussion today that there are situations (especially in
multi-master situations) where you want to retain the delete markers for some
period of time as well.
I would think this would require both a family-level setting (a new one or the
existing one) and also a read-time option, correct? As of now, deletes are
never returned to the client. You'd have to return them in this case otherwise
the user would have no idea what is actually there? I'm not sure it's fair to
ask a user to understand how our delete tombstones work :)
> Allow CF to retain deleted rows
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> Key: HBASE-4536
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4536
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: regionserver
> Affects Versions: 0.92.0
> Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
> Assignee: Lars Hofhansl
> Fix For: 0.92.0, 0.94.0
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> Parent allows for a cluster to retain rows for a TTL or keep a minimum number
> of versions.
> However, if a client deletes a row all version older than the delete tomb
> stone will be remove at the next major compaction (and even at memstore flush
> - see HBASE-4241).
> There should be a way to retain those version to guard against software error.
> I see two options here:
> 1. Add a new flag HColumnDescriptor. Something like "RETAIN_DELETED".
> 2. Folds this into the parent change. I.e. keep minimum-number-of-versions of
> versions even past the delete marker.
> #1 would allow for more flexibility. #2 comes somewhat naturally with parent
> (from a user viewpoint)
> Comments? Any other options?
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